6、WASHINGTON－Laura Straub is a very worried woman. Her job is to find families for French teenagers who expect to live with American families in the summer. It’s not easy, even desperate.

“We have many children left to place: 40 out of 75,” said Straub, who works for a Paris-based foreign-exchange programme called LEC. When exchange programmes started 50 years ago, family life was more accommodating(接纳). All families accepted them. For one thing, more mothers stayed home.

But now, increasing number of women work outside the home. Exchange-student programmes have struggled in recent years to sign up host families for 30,000 teenagers who annually come from abroad to spend an academic(学术) year in the United States, as well as the thousands more who participate in the summer programmes.

School systems in many parts of the US, unhappy about accepting non-taxpaying students, have also strictly limited the number of exchange students they accept. At the same time, the idea of hosting foreign students is becoming less exotic.

In searching for host families, who usually receive no pay, exchange programmes are increasingly broadening their appeals to include everyone from young to retirees.

“We are open to many different types of families,” said Vickie Weiner, eastern regional director for ASSE, a 25-year-old programme that sends about 30,000 teenagers on academic-year exchange programes worldwide.

For elderly people, exchange students “keep us young－they really do”, said Jean Forster, who is hosting 16-year-old Nina Ports from Denmark.

1．Vickis Weiner is the person who ___________.

       A．works for a programme called LEC       B．works for a programme called ASSE

       C．is 25 years old                                     D．hosts foreign students

2．The underlined word “exotic” means ___________.

       A．difficult               B．wonderful            C．exciting               D．accommodating

3．From the passage we can learn that at the beginning of the exchange pogrammes, __________.

       A．all the families could hosts foreign students

       B．only young couples could host foreign students

       C．only those who were retired could host foreign students

       D．those who were not too old could host foreign students

4．Which of the following is the best title of this passage?

       A．US Struggle to Find Host Families        

       B．Idea of Hosting Students Is Different

       C．Foreign-exchange Program Is Going On                               

       D．Exchange Students Keep Old People Young

5、When the 29th Olympic Games is held in Beijing in 2008, it will be a place where all our dreams come true.

And the building that will hold those dreams is to be based on a nest-like design, planned jointly by Swiss and Chinese architects. The plan is for the main Olympic stadium: the National Stadium. Nest-like walls surrounding the stadium like a steel net proved to be a popular design. It won more than half the votes of over 6,000 visitors to an exhibition of 13 possible designs, which ended on March 31. Before the exhibition, the leading plan had been chosen as one of three top designs from 13 possible plans. The official announcement for the final winning design will be made sometime this month.

Guan Zhaoye, chairman of the group of official judges, said, “The top design is a perfect meeting of elegance(典雅) and simplicity.” The stand(看台) is a bowl-shape running circle. “People’s attention can focus on the competitive events instead of the stadium itself,” said Li Xinggang, one of the architects. “The excited crowds will become part of the building itself and they will stimulate(激发) the athletes.”

Many visitors said that the model is unusual, practical and mixes modern architecture with traditional Chinese culture. “I think it shows the idea of a nest where new life grows up. It is a really good idea,” said one visitor. But others disagreed and were unhappy about the building looking like a bird cage.

The 80,000-seat stadium, to be built in north Beijing, will host the opening and closing ceremonies(仪式) as well as track-and-field(田径) events during the 2008 Olympics. Construction work is set to start at end of this year.

1．After the Sydney Olympic Games, the 29th Olympic Games will be held in __________.

       A．Atlanta                B．Barcelona            C．Beijing                 D．Athens(雅典)

2．Which of the following is not the reason why the nest-like design is chosen as the main stadium?

    A．It is designed jointly by Swiss and Chinese architects and look like a bird cage

       B．It is a perfect meeting of elegance and simplicity.

       C．It is unusual, practical and mixes modern architecture with traditional Chinese culture.

       D．It shows the idea of a nest where new life and dreams grow up.

3．According to the passage, which of the following is not right?

       A．Some people still disagree with the design.

       B．The stadium will begin to be built in the south of Beijing at the end of this year.

       C．The opening ceremony as well as other events will be held in the stadium.

       D．The design of the stand is very practical.

4、根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。（E涂AB，F涂AC，G涂AD）

－It’s almost vacation time,   1 

－I suppose I can work at the boy’s camp where I worked last summer. But camp don’t pay much.

－  2   A friend of mine was a waiter there last summer. The pay wasn’t good, but lots of tips.

－My sister worked there last summer, making beds and cleaning bathrooms. She didn’t like it, but she earned quite a lot of money.

－A friend of my sister’s did that one summer.

－What I want is a job outside. After sitting in the college classes all winter,   3 

－The high school kids earn a lot of money every summer cutting grass. My brother is only fourteen, but he gets five dollars every time while he cuts somebody’s grass, and it only takes him an hour. He just rides around on the machine that he bought, and the machine does all the work.

－  4   But now I thought I might work for a road-building company, or something like that.

－  5   You could earn a lot, too.

       A．It would be good experience.

       B．Where did you work last summer?

       C．I think a job in the open air.

       D．I think I can get a job at the Evergreen Hotel.

       E．I’d like a job indoor, instead.

       F．That’s pretty good, I used to cut grass when I was in high school.

       G．Have you found a summer job yet?

3、根据句意及所给单词的首字母或所给汉语注释，在下列句子的横线上写出各单词的完全形式。（每空只填一词）

1．Please have a dinner with us at six if it is c_____________ to you.

2．Stephen Hawking d__________ all his life to studying physics.

3．His life would be in danger if he were not sent to hospital i_____________.

4．With the development of modern agriculture and i________, more and more waste is produced.

5．There was a surprised e____________ on his face.

6．I’m into reading __________(冒险) stories.

7．My uncle is the manager of his ___________(运输) company.

8．Nie Haisheng and Fei Junlong have become ________(熟悉的) faces to millions of fans of space travel.

9．Not surprisingly, praise usually makes children _________(提高) greatly.

10．Large quantities of shoes are on sale in this stop, but few of them are of good ________(质量).

2、此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符（/\），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

Dear Mr. Brown,

I am writing to thank you with your kind help.                         1.____________

Before you came to teach us, I had not interest in                            2. ____________

English. My pronunciation was terribly. I could                               3. ____________

only speak a few words. But one and a half year later,                      4. ____________

I now think it funny to learn English. I got a lot from your                5. ____________

encouraging words. I will always remember what you                     6.____________

said, “If you try to, you can be No.1!” I hope you’ve                       7. ____________

had pleasant journey home and will come to China                           8. ____________

again sometimes in the future. I will write again                               9. ____________

and send you the photos we take together.                                      10. ____________

      Yours sincerely,

      Li Ming

1、2007年4月29日上午10点到11点，全国亿万学生在各地人中小学同时参加阳光体育活动。江苏省1100万学生积极参与了这项活动。

教育部倡导学生：

每天锻炼一小时

健康工作五十年

幸福生活一辈子

请你根据以上提示，用英语准备一篇发言稿，向同学们讲述一下阳光体育的有关情况，并就高三学生是否需要每天花一小时锻炼，谈谈你的看法及理由。

注意：1．发言稿应包括以上所有信息，要有适当发挥。

2．词数120个左右。发言稿的开头和结尾已经写好，不记入总词数。

3．参考词汇：阳光体育活动——a national student sports program

教育部——the Ministry of Education

    Good afternoon, everyone,

30、These problems,   , will seriously affect the growth of teenagers and even the nation’s future.

A．not if solved properly                                   B．if solved properly

C．not if properly solved                                  D．if not properly solved

29、There will be 21,880 persons for the torch relay of the 2008 Olympic Games,        it the biggest in the Games’ history.

A．making     B．make        C．to make    D．made

28、--- It can’t be too worse.

--- Just        . Things will turn out to be better so long as you don’t stop trying.

A．be all right B．take your time  C．ignore it    D．take it easy